I am not often at a loss at the end of a Hearthstone game, but once again I find myself in such a situation.
I was playing arena with a 7-2 paladin deck. It's far from the best deck ever (only 1 spikeridge steed), but i drafted 5 weapons and they were all seeing pretty good use and were helping to carry me to victory.
I run into a warlock and i'm on board early and he's wasting his early turns life tapping. By turn 5 I have a stranglethorn tiger hiding and I've got 2 vine cleavers in hand and I"m ready to start racing to end this game. He's shown no realistic ability to handle my board and to stop me from connecting face a bunch of times for the win.
So my first vine cleaver hits him in the face, summons 2 dudes and my tiger hits face as well. He's pretty low at that point (12 hp?) and he doesn't have much of a board.
He plays gluttonous ooze.
Ouch, my vine cleaver is dead (wasting 2 charges) and he gains 4 armor.
But it's okay! I have another vine cleaver, I also have a tirion in hand that I discovered from stonehill defender.
So I play tirion. He uses some spell + minions to clear it.
And then he plays gluttonous ooze.
Ashbringer down. He gains 5 armor and I got to use 0 charges of it. This bites. My tiger connected face at least once more during this and I still think I can finish the job because he's having to trade most of what board he has at this point, but i'm running out of steam.
so I play my other vine cleaver, hit him in the face, summon 2 dudes, and take him to 2ish health with still 2 more charges of vine cleaver swings.
HE PLAYS A THIRD GLUTTONOUS OOZE.
May I REMIND YOU that this is an EPIC CARD that you will not often draft INFINITY copies of. Nor will you necessarily have them ALL READY TO GO IN YOUR HAND IN THE FIRST HALF OF YOUR DECK.
Such a demoralizing loss -_-
But 180g is still nice, even though I feel like I got cheated from my 8th win.
At least I still have 1 free arena run left, hopefully I can get another deep run. But ugh who the hell drafts 3 gluttonous oozes and is able to get PERFECT value on all of them?
I feel like any time an arena player drafts 3 copies of a card its going to catch the opponent off guard. More so if its epics. I'm in the midst of a mage run right now where I drafted 3 meteors. One game I won because I hadn't drawn them all game, then when I really needed them I knew there were 3 in my last 10 cards. Sure enough, topdecked 2 in a row. ---